Police in Arizona say they arrested nearly 350 people during a sex trafficking crackdown in the weeks leading up to Super Bowl LVII in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale.
, online predators, street prostitutes and sex buyers, police said.
"The priority of these operations was to identify and recover juveniles or adult victims of human trafficking as it relates to fraud, force or coercion as well as to provide victim outreach," the department explained., 300 of the arrests were misdemeanor crimes, and 120 of those were said to be arrests of people looking to pay for sex.
Police were also able to recover five juveniles and one adult and also said that seven guns were seized."Those who were identified as potential traffickers as a result of these operations are being further investigated by either state, local and/or federal agencies," police said. Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to [email protected].
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